On Wal-Mart and their starving employees...

Granted, they pay lousy wages, but, amazingly, they still pay better than Amazon or Target, and who's giving up their Amazon Prime for the sake of broken backs or mass firings of underpaid workers in Amazon warehouses...

Costco pays better, sure, after you've been there a while, but they're not nearly so big and their stores are in the better neighborhoods. Besides, they have maybe half the people on the floor as Wal-Mart, so they work a lot harder. They're finally opening a Costco 20 miles down the road from me now that the demographics fit their model. We'll see how it works.

Wal-Mart knows they pay shit because they can, but the food drives have been going on for years from what I hear, because employees on the edge have divorces, sick kids, house fires, and other things people on the edge have trouble dealing with.

Amazon just fires your ass if your kid is sick.

Now, if everyone wants to use Wal-Mart as a symbol of what's wrong-- fine. There's a lot wrong. But, piling on as if Wal-Mart is all that's wrong is simplistic and won't get us anywhere.